Tinker+v.+Des+Moines+School+District+(1969)


 * ===The people that were involved in this case was John F. Tinker, Mary Beth Tinker, Christopher Eckhardt, Leonard Tinker, William Eckhardt, and The Des Moines Independent Community School District.===
 * ===This Agrument started on November 12, 1968 and the Supreme Court of The United States decided on February 24, 1969.===
 * ===This Case was about wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. The school had set a policy to permitting students to wear political symbols, but they had excluded the students from wearing armbands protesting the Vietnam War.===




 * ===This Case Had made it to The Supreme Court because of the student's father's had sued the school district for excluding the student's from wearing armbands protesting the Vietnam War. The district court had ruled that the school had not violated the Constitution, then the court of appeals had agreed with the other court lower then them, then the tinkers had appealed to The Supreme Court.[[image:landmarkcourts/Des_Moines_School_after_1925.jpg width="661" height="241" align="left" caption="Des moines school"]]===


 * ===In 1969 the united states supreme court had ruled in a seven to two decision in favor of the students in the case. The upper court had agreed that the students had free rights that they should be protected.===